What I just wonder is where the TVC will turn up. By all accounts, including Hasbro, they have this stuff. They just can't sell it.

It's truly baffling that Hasbro doesn't just sell Tarkin/Starkilller cases through their website. I guess they would prefer to just let these cases rot in their warehouse. It's pretty clear Target/TRU/Walmart isn't rushing to order more TVC from Hasbro.

HTS has its own business model though... It's a separate entity, so Hasbro's SW team can't force them to take it. They've got their own stock they can't move from what I see. Some of it good stuff too.

I think when it's all said and done, some of this may wind up there though, actually.

The Tarkin isn't anything major. He's not as good as he could've been. The colors are off some, and the head needed far better paint aps IMO. To me, that's the glaringly obvious failure on the Tarkin figure. His hair's much more varied in color than they gave, and I find his skin tone odd, the eyes a little odd... It's nowhere near perfect.

The uniform color isn't as bad as initially thought, but it's also not perfect. The POTF2 figure's color is actually perfect, and the paint aps superior. The sculpt just suffers.

Having a $5 off $25 coupon I hopped into a TRU Saturday, found a lone Death Star Trooper chilling amongst a pile of TPM figures and a pile of TCW realistic Ani's... They got a lot of that wave in recently I'd say.

Couldn't find a figure I wanted to pair with him for the B1G1 thing they were doing, so I opted to go with a Speederbike, get the DST for $5 then, and use the $5 coupon...

Either way I either got a free DST and a Speederbike for full price, or as I prefer to look at it, a Speederbike for about $18 and a $5 DST. Once the accountant in my head is happy, I'm usually willing to commit to the purchase.

I lucked out and didn't luck out, because I found an AT-ST, but it was $15.50 with the 50% off. I got it anyway, along with two more driver sets. No Ewoks to be found. I think that finally does it for the endor exclusives locally (within 30 miles), I hope.

Sad news the 5 Below seems to have stopped stocking Star Wars figures, just a naboo pilot and obi-wan hanging around now.